Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 2016 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in August 2016, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in August 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2016What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 2nd August 2016What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 3rd August 2016Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 4th August 2016What is compensatory education?
- 5th August 2016What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 6th August 2016Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 7th August 2016What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 8th August 2016Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 9th August 2016What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 10th August 2016What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 11th August 2016What is primary socialisation?
- 12th August 2016Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 13th August 2016What is the medical model of disability?
- 14th August 2016Define intragenerational mobility.
- 15th August 2016Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 16th August 2016What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 17th August 2016What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 18th August 2016What is the Pupil Premium?
- 19th August 2016What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 20th August 2016Define 'forced marriage'.
- 21st August 2016Define 'cohabitation'.
- 22nd August 2016According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 23rd August 2016Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 24th August 2016What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 25th August 2016Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 26th August 2016Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 27th August 2016Define globalisation.
- 28th August 2016Give one reason why absolute mobility in the UK rose during the 20th century even without the class system becoming much more open in relative terms.
- 29th August 2016Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 30th August 2016What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 31st August 2016Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.